Click HERE to download the free version of the
program iCal 3.7. Install it on your computer. Copy your calendar's data file
to the directory where you installed iCal and rename your file "default.cal". Use your browser to access and edit
calendar; its address will be localhost/name of
calendar (with no extension).

Edit the calendar (add new events, etc.) just as if you were connected to
Calendars Net. The edits will automatically be saved to default.cal.
When done editing, you must copy or rename "default.cal"
back to the original name of your calendar (myevents.cal
or whatever). Then go to step 3.

Note: If you run iCal on Windows95 or Windows98, the
biggest data (.cal) file it can handle is 64k. Your data file at Calendars
Net may be bigger than that, if you have many dozens of events (because Calendars
Net runs on Windows 2000 and can handle bigger data files). If your data
file is bigger than 64k, first try reducing it on Calendars Net by
deleting old months (/Administer/Delete Month Events).

Method B: Use any pure ASCII text
editor.

You can use MS Notepad, MS Wordpad, or any other
pure ASCII text editor to do "search and replaces" or otherwise edit
existing events in the file or specify calendar colors, etc.

Note: The structure of the data file is not at all obvious; adding an
event in an incorrect format could make your entire file unreadable by
Calendars Net and unrecoverable later. Do not use ASCII text editing to create
new events. We can almost guarantee that you will regret it. And make sure your
ASCII text editor is set up not to wrap text and that it does not insert new
line breaks.

If you use this method, you
should still download and install iCal on your computer (see instructions under
Method A above) and use it to make sure that your edited data file can indeed
be read by iCal, before you upload your edited file to Calendars Net. Use iCal
on your own computer to read your edited file (renamed to "default.cal"). Or you can just make a backup of your
unedited calendar file, then upload the edited file to Calendars Net and check
it there. If it works, fine. If not, you can then upload your unedited file
back to Calendars Net.

3.After editing and checking
the validity of your file locally, upload your calendar's data file to Calendars Net Upload (which is http://www.calendars.net/calup.htm).
Please, please remember to rename your file back to its original name before
uploading it. Please do not upload your file while it is named default.cal.

Also, please send a message to Offline
Editing Used to tell us that you have used offline editing, so we can know
if this feature is worthwhile.

Download Detailed
Instructions

After you fill out the download form and hit Download the File, a dialog box
should appear and allow you to download your file to any directory on your
computer, with the correct file name of your calendar. If clicking on the link
does not work, try right-clicking on it and choosing "Save Target As"
in IE or "Save Link As" in Netscape.

If none of the above methods work, you may need to establish a file
association for "cal" files within Netscape or within Windows (if
using IE as browser).

To do so in Netscape, go to Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Applications and
create a new type. Fill in the 4 fields with iCal, cal, text/plain, and
notepad.exe. Save your new type. Then, with the cursor on your new type (iCal),
click the Edit button. Then click the radio button for Save to Disk. Click OK
twice. Close Netscape completely (including all Netscape windows). Load
Netscape. Go to Calendars Net Data File Download and
again download your calendar. When the Save File dialog box appears, make sure
that Netscape is saving your file as a .cal file and not as a .txt file.

To do so if IE is your broswer, load My Computer
or Windows Explorer. Go to View/Folder Options/File Types. Create a new file
type called iCal with extension cal and mime type text/plain. Create a new
Action, SAVE, using notepad.exe. Check "confirm after download".
Click Close twice. Return to IE. Go back to Calendars Net
Data File Download and again download your calendar.

If you have not created a new application or file type for "cal"
files, then the text of your calendar data file should appear in the bottom
frame of this page and should begin with a few short lines of text. In
Netscape, you can click anywhere in the frame and use menu choices "File/Save
Frame As" to save the frame to your calendar's
name (automatic) or to "default.cal" for
editing with iCal running on your computer. In IE, however, you need to mark
all of the text in the bottom frame (click anywhere on the text there and hit
Ctrl-A), save it to the clipboard (Ctrl-C), open an ASCII text editor (such as
Notepad or Wordpad), retrieve the text (Ctrl-V), and
save it as your calendar's file name (name.cal) or as
"default.cal" for editing in iCal running
on your computer. If the text appears as a big blob and does not start with a
few short lines, you have done something wrong and should again look at the
instructions above.